Can 24-hour drinking zones transform a city?
Can 24-hour drinking zones transform a city?
Montreal is planning to allow bars and clubs to stay open all night, but opinions are mixed.
Most definitely! But maybe not in the way people would want.
That's a very first shift centric mindset. I get off work at 1AM, if I want to grab a beer after work I should be able to. Bars having to close at certain times is just puritanical BS that also ignores anyone with a "non-standard" schedule.
The UK already has 24 hour drinks licensing in theory, and lots of bars have a late licence. But in practice, very few bars actually open through the night; it turns out that the economics of keeping a bar staffed and open when most of the customers are in bed just doesn't work out.
It's pretty much just nightclubs that make any use of it.
I believe Glasgow has or had a "postman's bar" that was open until the very early hours for those getting off the late shift sorting letters.
20+ years ago when I worked in a Cardiff nightclub, there was a place that was open until about 7am for its members. Naturally, lots of night shift workers signed up as members, and on a Saturday night it was full until close.
The landlady made it very clear to everyone, every time you went there, that causing trouble would be an instant ban.
As it was the only place open through the night, there was never a problem there. It was fantastic :)
I've been saying this about restaurants and stores for years. Unfortunately the majority of people don't work 3rd shift. TBH if we all worked on a rotating offset with starting times spaced 4 hours apart, we could reduce traffic massively. But noooo, people insist on sleeping at night. Fuck night owls I guess. Oh well. Nobody wants a 13 month calendar either.
Why is no one ever thinking about alcoholics?
Bars being forced to close at a certain time stops alcoholics?
I call those places airports
TIL my living room is a 24-hour drinking zone.